SAC Tennis Programs Receive ITA Academic Honors

Jul 10, 2012

SKILLMAN, N.J.
– Three SAC tennis programs have been named
All-Academic Teams by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA)
and 17 individual student-athletes earned ITA Scholar-Athlete
honors, the organization announced this week.

The Tusculum men and women's
programs and the Wingate men earned ITA All-Academic Team
distinctions, which recognizes ITA member schools with cumulative
team GPAs of 3.20 or higher.

The ITA Scholar-Athlete program
honors players with a 3.50 or higher GPA during the most recent
academic year. Student-athletes must have also earned a varsity
letter and been enrolled at their current school for at least two
semester to be eligible for the award.

On the women's side, six
student-athletes from Wingate, three from Tusculum and one from
Newberry were named ITA Scholar-Athletes.